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I am getting the dreaded message from Directv about not having HD cables every time I access the channel guide and some other functions. I've read the advice on this board and have a couple of questions, not being technically inclined. My setup is a Panasonic 1080p 52" television connected to a Directv box. I have a second set that gets its signal from a Radio Shack a/v signal sender/receiver (the sending unit is connected to the Directv box and the receiver is connected to the second set through the component inputs). The second set is getting the Directv message. I'm wondering if a component to composite adaptor (like the one at Monoprice) would get rid of the message and, if so, how to hook it up. Should it be connected to the Directv receiver and then to the Radio Shack signal sender or to the Radio Shack signal receiver and the second television (or some other way)? Or, if it won't work at all, is there any other solution (other than to change the resolution on the main set every time I watch the auxiliary set)? Thanks very much for any help!

The monoprice box would hook to the Directv receivers component output, and the cables you currently have plugged into the DirecTv box would plug into the monoprice box.

Yes this should work, and you can bypass the audio straight from the D* receiver to the AV sending unit, there's no need to send the audio through the Mono price adapter. I have the adapter and it works great.

Yes this should work, and you can bypass the audio straight from the D* receiver to the AV sending unit, there's no need to send the audio through the Mono price adapter. I have the adapter and it works great.

If you hit reply with quote, and then highlight the link between the two URL tags, it works every time, so the information is correct in the posts. It seems to happen if there are &'s and %'s in them. Been doing it for several months now.

If you hit reply with quote, and then highlight the link between the two URL tags, it works every time, so the information is correct in the posts. It seems to happen if there are &'s and %'s in them. Been doing it for several months now.

Oh, I know VOS (and I) put in the correct URL and all, but was trying to figure out how to get around the viglink bits that seem to screw up URLs that point to certain sites.

I suspect this is something David Bott could figure out in a minute. I think it has to do with the viglinks business, perhaps in combo with URLs that have spaces (%) or other non-html characters.

If you hit reply with quote, and then highlight the link between the two URL tags, it works every time, so the information is correct in the posts. It seems to happen if there are &'s and %'s in them. Been doing it for several months now.

Here's something else I just found out: If in Reply, you go to the quoting of the thread's page, the extra links are not added in, so VOS's post of 8:30 last evening works as it should....

Someone please explain the reason you are converting component to composite when the HD DVRs do the converting for you. I know I am missing something somewhere. Forgive me, I am an old man trying to understand this thread.

For in home SD video distribution to a 2nd or more TVs. Prior to the HD GUI, those TVs would be able to view menus and guide using the boxes composite output. Since the new GUI, the HD menus are no longer shown on the composite outputs, hence the requirement to convert the HD component output to SD composite output to retain the same capabilities.

Thanks for the reply, but I am still confused. I am running a second SD, 480p, TV from the HR24-100's composite output. All the menus work but they are displayed on a 4:3 screen. Also, I have to run my primary HD TV at 480p when I am viewing the SD TV. How does this change when the component out is converted to composite?